Shall this report about Ubuntu Testcases be closed?

2017-06-19 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
(https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-50459) When answering please include my email address as recipient, as I'm not subscribed to these mailing lists. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Jono Bacon: it is low bandwidth, you can access it on mobile phones, blind people can understand it with screen readers, multiple clients support it, you can do machine translation on it, etc. Thanks for your input. I think this conversation has went a little through the roof, and better

Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Jono Bacon: There is though a practicality issue of how people respond to content in a video. Okay, text. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto: Okay, text. Well, I really don't feel like it's something I wanted to do any more. Apart from if it practically makes sense or not. Simply I spend a big part of my time alone writing in front of a computer, and the latest thing that appeals to me is relating with people through

Re: Odp: Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Marcin Xc: "Why" are You still ignoring people who told You that a mailing list is not a right place for links and videos? Especially 10 or 20 minutes long. I understand that people suspect I'm doing things on resistance. Understand me when I choose to point an UI issue actually seeing the

Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Stephen Kellat: > Within the strains of my civil service posting, even machine > translated text is easier for me to approach than video. Before I made video-responses widespread I wanted to warrant it wouldn’t exclude too much people. So I picked up a web-site which was English written, but

Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-07 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Why we have malformed bug reports: (https://youtu.be/sC6wG5Owu4E) Why decisions are better delegated: (https://youtu.be/9PWW8sryNec) Where to place these help pages: (https://youtu.be/vob02C4dGWI) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-06 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Speaking about the Roman's king, I have just received this email from a familiar which I have installed Ubuntu: Cousin: > It gets worse every time, especially at start-up, it hangs and > needs to restart. Other mentions in the latests two months: Father: > It usually hangs at start-up, and

Re: I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-05 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Marcin Xc: I just think there is just not enough self confidence in Your videos. (https://youtu.be/zZU4zZzEbwo) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

I'm stopping contributing

2017-06-04 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://youtu.be/c7Vzg0svBXI -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-06-01 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
On one hand we have meritocracies, like GNOME, where some people have the final saying about what things are going to be. On the other we have democracies, like Debian, where all the decisions shall be agreed before taken on. The first one has the drawback of usually ignoring individual

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-30 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Sorry but I spend an hour writing an answer to these emails, but even then I ended with something extra long that I think nobody will read or understand. In fact that's what usually happens when I answer in text. On the other hand when I use video in a couple of minutes I'm usually done. I

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-28 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
About: (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs) (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/es20490446e/Reporting%20bugs) Sorry, but I'm absolutely convinced that the latest draft I've written is really what's needed. The sections clearly reflect every use case, and they are organised in a logical

NVIDIA graphics are being unstable

2017-05-21 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://youtu.be/GU8exkT0vcE -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-14 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Lets show that to the customers: - (http://girlsaskguys.com/technology-internet/q2426552-would-you-follow-this) - (https://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/16/19/87/90/answer11.png) When I started this conversation I committed to something for my own curiosity, which was that I won't to shave till it

Re: CVE-2017-7308 Linux Kernel 4.8.0 (Ubuntu) - Packet Socket Local Privilege Escalation

2017-05-14 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
K1: > Does anyone know the current status of CVE-2017-7308? (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1678009) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-12 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
C de-Avillez: If this response sounds aggressive, please rest assured it is not the intention. It doesn't sound aggressive to me. In fact I really appreciated how you in particular have been treating me lately. C de-Avillez: > Try to look at it in a different way: some of us have a LOT of

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-11 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
With you permission I'm going to answer all email on video from now on. Simply having to agree with people on text proves to be too tense for me. Anyway if you are unable to understand spoken English in a private conversation, let me know and I will make an exception there. Thank you. --

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-11 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: What if the things you both agree on - everyone else in the world disagrees with? Since I will be showing the same draft to everyone, we will know. Dario Ruellan: > I have no problem leaving this in public, in fact, could be nice to > first gather consensus regarding the actual

Re: Bug with SYSLOG

2017-05-10 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Upadhyay Manas Vijay: Am facing a weird problem with syslog. For reporting the bug, just follow these instructions: (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs?action=recall=306) Talking about the Romans emperor ;) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-10 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: > What makes you think that two people talking won't amount to the > same? Alberto Salvia Novella: > (https://graphicproducts.com/articles/nemawashi) Basically because we are not skipping the public conversation. But just agreeing as far as possible first in private,

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-10 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: What makes you think that two people talking won't amount to the same? (https://graphicproducts.com/articles/nemawashi) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-10 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Dario Ruellan: I don't see why those two guides can't coexist, one as a quick guide, the other as advanced guide. What if we took advantage of the capability of wikis to abstract pages, and we make a guide that is concise, but provides generous amount of detail on sub-pages? Dario

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-10 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Dario Ruellan: I don't see why those two guides can't coexist, one as a quick guide, the other as advanced guide. What if we took advantage of the capability of wikis to abstract pages, and we make a guide that is concise, but provides generous amount of detail on sub-pages? Dario

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-09 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
After thinking for a while about this topic I conclude I was somehow wrong. Rather than most of you having a bad attitude I simply think there's a lack of consensus about how basic things should be done, and also a lack of process for reaching consensus on my side. So this is what I'm going

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-09 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
J: > "run this command, I'm not going to tell you why, > or what to expect, or how to navigate the menus and options, but just > run this command". The process is completely guided. It's like instructions on the instructions themselves. People aren't interested in that. J: > What degree of

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-05-09 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Gustavo Silva: Please, do it right this time. Seems legit, except because that degree of agreement doesn't seem possible. Just see the latest email from J, for example. He basically suggested that everything is wrong, half of which was already like that in the original guide. If I had to

Re: Showstopper bug report (17.04): WiFi not working

2017-05-09 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Brian Murray: > "Substituting FILE with your file name" still seems incomplete to me. The hole section is about how to generate a file, where the previous step already mentions which file we are talking about: "Copy the generated file to the system used for filing the report" I don't think

Re: Showstopper bug report (17.04): WiFi not working

2017-05-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Brian Murray wrote: > Are you committing to doing the work of bringing the missing bits > back? Yes, I am. Moreover this is the kind of documentation I usually read, so if something is missing I would probably notice. Brian Murray: > If you are willing please edit the page and explain what

Re: Ubuntu Tester

2017-05-06 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Filiberto to the Papercutters: > Dear All, > > I am new to Ubuntu Testing Community. I have seen this team and I > would like to ask you how I can be useful in testing software. > > I have downloaded VirtualBox machine and I have installed it. I have > downloaded two ISO: Ubuntu 17.10 and 17.04.

Re: Showstopper bug report (17.04): WiFi not working

2017-05-04 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Magnus Määttä: > I guess this is the address to send mail to for bug reports since > there aren't any valid working other ways to do it. https://youtu.be/5R-yOJCKVJw -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Colin Law: Those of us who pay for bandwidth and/or have to manage with low connection rates would prefer that images that do not server a purpose should be avoided. Images properly optimized take a negligible amount of space. This one took 89.3 KB. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list

Re: Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-05-01 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Gunnar Hjalmarsson: > Artwork may improve readability, but it adds to the maintenance > burden. The artwork I'm talking about doesn't require maintenance at all. I'm referring to images like the one at the bottom of this page: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/es20490446e/Reporting%20bugs) --

How to fix the Unity fiasco

2017-04-30 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome/+bug/1687351 -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Are you seeing this error in my emails?

2017-04-30 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Chris Pollock just said me that he's seeing the following error message on the top of every email he's receiving from me on this list: >Error verifying signature: parse error > --ms050806000101030505050803 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed >

Shall I include artwork in technical documentation?

2017-04-30 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://goo.gl/forms/VDbXIhlFHVM6DleF3 -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-29 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
I have came up with an alternate way to encourage people to report bugs. It's the second point in the Etiquette section: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/es20490446e/Reporting%20bugs) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-27 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Nicholas Skaggs: I would encourage you to continue your efforts to improving the bug reporting guide itself, as opposed to bikeshedding about artwork or making yet another page. I mean this draft is intended to substitute the official reporting guide, once agreed. -- Ubuntu-quality

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-27 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Nicholas Skaggs: I don't think you need any artwork on the page and as such I have removed it, given it's negative response in this thread. https://youtu.be/IGOsXqktN1M -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
C de-Avillez: The swastika, independent of where/when it was created, now symbolises a dark time. Some -- myself included -- consider it abhorrent; in my case, for personal family reasons. I understand. I have removed it in favour of something less invasive. First I tried erasing only the

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto: The reason why the swastika is there is because that image is an original blueprint from World War 2 Forgot to mention that I have no problem changing or removing it if needed. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Thomas Ward: > While the purest form of the swastika comes from non-Nazi religious > symbols, we should avoid using it because of the way it was twisted > during the late 30s and 40s. The reason why the swastika is there is because that image is an original blueprint from World War 2, and if

Re: I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
C de-Avillez: > We should *not* announce how to directly enter a bug in LP. If the system isn't functional reporting directly to Launchpad would be the only available method, although I agree that option should be presented as the last resort. I have clarified it:

I have written a draft for the Reporting Bugs guide

2017-04-25 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Many people has been complaining through the years about not knowing how to report bugs in Ubuntu. I have been asking those people why is that, and they usually told me that the reporting bugs guide was too long, hard to skim, and nobody would be willing to read it. It wasn't till I putted a

I feel Ubuntu is facing doom

2017-04-23 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://youtu.be/r4DTZ0bJbBY -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: ubuntu-docs or gnome-user-docs for Ubuntu 17.10?

2017-04-22 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Jeremy Bicha: > I'd like to propose that we replace ubuntu-docs with gnome-user-docs > in main and only install gnome-user-docs by default. Since the main purpose of using GNOME is unifying infrastructure, that decision seems the obvious one to me. Jeremy Bicha: > I'm sure you've heard that

Re: Can average users change bug statuses?

2017-04-03 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Teo Tei: Anybody can change the status to Fix Released, but only privileged users can change it back once it is set to that status. Which, of course, is idiotic. https://youtu.be/XCZiUx2u8Wc -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Can average users change bug statuses?

2017-04-03 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
About (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1569970), an user told me this: Nicolas Merieux: > Could you change back the bug status to confirmed? (I don't know how > to do it or, if it's under the affect bar with the status and change > button, do not have the rights to do

Re: Ubuntu 17.04 in the news

2017-04-03 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Ian Bruntlett: The Register has published an article about Ubuntu 17.04. Thanks for sharing, although (https://www.imforza.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/push-vs-pull-marketing.png) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: 17.04: Unity greeter bug

2017-03-25 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alkis Mavridis: It automatically logs me in when I click the password field. If you *still have access* to the desktop, please report the bug using the ubuntu-bug tool. *Otherwise*

Re: Chromium Browser versions in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04

2017-03-16 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto Salvia Novella: My answer: https://youtu.be/dh7rZeZGK-Y I have to correct myself: graphic performance can be noticeably worse in Firefox. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Chromium Browser versions in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04

2017-03-16 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
K1: Why aren't chromium browser versions the same in Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 16.04 like Firefox? My answer: https://youtu.be/dh7rZeZGK-Y -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Do you know the right package for this webcam bug report?

2017-02-28 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1667180 -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Application from Vej for Ubuntu Bug Control membership

2017-02-19 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
C de-Avillez: The fact you personally does not use IRC does not make it surplus. https://youtu.be/bgRgOE95JRA?t=1m6s -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: [Ubuntu-bugcontrol] Application from Vej for Ubuntu Bug Control membership

2017-02-19 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
C de-Avillez: The fact you personally does not use IRC does not make it surplus. https://youtu.be/bgRgOE95JRA?t=1m6s -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Lots of reports about re-installation failures

2017-02-16 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Comme Ci Comme Ca: This has been a problem with both 14.04 and 16.04 LTS re-installs. It seems it was fixed for a while, but it has now came back. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Lots of reports about re-installation failures

2017-02-15 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
If this is interesting for you, we are having a big amount of re-installation failures: (https://goo.gl/ek9FDJ) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: call for testing: snaps in Trusty

2017-02-10 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Leo: With snaps you can have a stable base system with frequent updates for every program, without the risk of breaking your machine. I believe it's the coolest thing since UTF-8  -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Perte de connexion wi-fi après mise en veille-réveil

2017-02-05 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
C de-Avillez: Is it normal behaviour? Have a look at: (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1585863) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

The Theora codec seems not to be working in Xenial

2017-01-09 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Please, could you confirm that you aren't experiencing this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/recordmydesktop/+bug/1655189 If you are affected, probably is also worth running the following command into a Terminal: sudo lshw -C display >> gpu.txt And attaching it to the bug report. Thank you.

Re: USB 3 drives and remounting

2016-12-15 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: Not sure that flashing bios and all the pain that *could* cause is something I'm willing to do nor likely to help. https://youtu.be/lSmcsGmoYTs -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Upgrade was a disaster as usual

2016-12-12 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
https://youtu.be/O6H79fQaQLI -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Upgrade was a disaster as usual

2016-12-12 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
JMZ: > I never fully understood why a individual user would use LTS. There's a good reason for it, which is any software that works is warranted to continue working. And that's pretty interesting for both the user and the producer. Most software that is libre is community maintained, without

Re: Upgrade was a disaster as usual

2016-12-11 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Teo T.: I guess my biggest mistake was to choose ubuntu in the first place. I'm sorry you didn't like it. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Upgrade was a disaster as usual

2016-12-11 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Teo Troll: > What the f**k am I supposed to do?? https://youtu.be/a-wW7YUDWnY -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS x86_64 - gnome-software always crashing

2016-12-03 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: Unless it's an error - in which case I *believe* it just sends those. https://youtu.be/HwdwuQ_8ZCY -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Copy on Write - Dirty COW Kernel bug

2016-10-23 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Ian Bruntlett: At one stage Software Updater would run and give you details about updates in a window. I miss that. Is there a configuration setting for that? If I set security updates to download and install automatically, Software Updater will never show up. Instead updates are installed

Re: 16.10 upgrade screen has some issues

2016-10-13 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: > Maybe something to do with upgrade being a 'weekly' test cycle? Remember that I said I won't be shorting bugs for regular releases as a test, and that it was the kind of activity that prevented those kind of issues in time. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list

Re: Is this a bug?

2016-09-30 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Fabio Marconi: Hi, I found this https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=355672 Chris Hermansen: > For sure a SEGV signal indicates a program fault is a bug. Thanks, I have reported it as (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1629445). Hope I haven't driven my ISP too crazy with my

Is this a bug?

2016-09-29 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
I'm having a problem while navigating on the Internet, and I don't know if it's due to my provider or a bug. The issue is this: while navigating using Chromium or Chrome, from time to time all the tabs disconnects from the Internet. On the other hand, if I reload the page the connection seems

Re: What the "fix released" status really means?

2016-09-28 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Brian Murray: No, its not. The task here, qr-tools (Ubuntu), is for the development release of Ubuntu. If the fix is not available in the package in the archive for that release then it should not be Fix Released. I have made it clear in (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Bug%20statuses), "Fix

What the "fix released" status really means?

2016-09-28 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Is it appropiate to mark a bug as fixed in the Ubuntu package if it's only fixed in a ppa or upstream but not in release? Like (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qr-tools/+bug/1589965). -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: I won't be supporting Yakety

2016-09-16 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Stephen M. Webb: > I would argue though that it's better to test, report, and fix bugs > before they're released and not after, which is what happens if > you're not using the current dev release. I will take that into account. Have a nice day. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list

Re: Do you know who can edit Launchpad projects?

2016-09-15 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Thomas Ward: > You might want to ask in #launchpad on IRC, or ask it under the > Questions feature against Launchpad Itself on LP, though, if you > don't get a definitive response here. Thanks, I'll do that if I don't get a response. Dave Morley: > https://launchpad.net/dosbox this is the

I won't be supporting Yakety

2016-09-15 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
This is to warn that I won't be debugging Yakety. The reason is I will be sticking with long term releases as a test for a while, as I suspect those are better suited for most people. This is important because I'm who sets importance to most bugs in Ubuntu, and that discovers the critical

Re: Startup Disc Creator

2016-09-10 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Nio Wiklund: I think the bug report should be directed against gparted. Nio, as you will be able to better describe the bug, can you report it yourself? Just send me the link when the report is ready, and I will triage it for you. Thank you. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list

Re: Startup Disc Creator

2016-09-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Nio Wiklund: > Are you suggesting to file a bug against gparted? Ian Bruntlett: > how many do you want me to create? Both GPartEd and the system in > general can't access the data on the flash drives. Well, I thought the bug was with the Startup Disk Creator. So probably Nio will be able to

Re: Startup Disc Creator

2016-09-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Ian Bruntlett: > The flash drive is not being recognised. To quote GPartEd, "Unable to > detect file system!". > > Does anyone else have this problem? Yes, I have. I thought the device was broken. Please open a new report about it, and I will confirm and triage it for you. Thanks  --

Re: [FLAVOURS] QA Flavour Cycle meetup

2016-07-31 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Martin Wimpress: > I'm certainly interested in keeping the milestones because it has > absolutely helped identify issues before the panic of final beta. How has it helped? All confirmed reports are tagged with releases names and shorted by importance, so that will be even better for

Re: Hi!

2016-07-30 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Tux Ace: I want to contribute. Welcome to the team! -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: [FLAVOURS] QA Flavour Cycle meetup

2016-07-29 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Walter Lapchynski: > We need to organize together, which we're not doing too well. If you care about organization, my suggestion would be to put it written on a wiki that anyone could see, without digging too much in minor points. Make a draft of it and agree on the details later on. This is

Re: #1543046 wrongly marked as fixed for Wily

2016-07-08 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto: If you don't care about helping Ubuntu QA, why are you in this list in the first place? Oh men, I obviously should not answer messages like these. As they can turn a good day into something worse. So I'm moving to the happy band, thank you. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list

Re: #1543046 wrongly marked as fixed for Wily

2016-07-07 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
PHP Fan: If I were a member of a QA team, I would test it on Trusty. What is the different between a team member and you on testing the bug? -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Propose to make Steam experience better.

2016-06-27 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Pasat Ion: Can we implement this workaround in Ubuntu for ease of use? Personally I believe that issues shall be fixed at the root. Otherwise problems tend to procreate, as software owners to procrastinate. Steam has been a clear example of that, as for years Radeon cards have only worked

Re: Why wasn't I notified that I was put on moderation??

2016-06-27 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Teo, independently of if you agree or disagree with us, your messages are obvious trolling: Teo Teo privately to Alberto: > Perhaps to get an idea of how the excellent job that the QA team has > been doing is perceived out there - that is, out here. > > Wait a moment, did you say that you are

Re: Fwd: The grep disaster

2016-06-24 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto: Moreover this particular bug affected only one known person. My mistake, it affected three people. So probably it would be its description needed my latest update. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grep/+bug/1535458) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list

Re: Serious regression makes it almost impossible to watch video on browsers

2016-06-24 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
PHP Fan: There's been no response on this critical regression that has started happening recently That's because nobody else confirmed it, so probably it isn't that bad. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Ubuntu 16.04, Xubuntu 16.04, Kubuntu 16.04 dedimedo.com reviews

2016-06-04 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Warren: > http://dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-xerus.html > http://dedoimedo.com/computers/xubuntu-xenial-xerus.html > http://dedoimedo.com/computers/kubuntu-xerus.html As usual, it's just more self defeating religious begging  -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com

I will be sticking to the long term releases

2016-05-18 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
This is to tell you that, as an experiment, I would be only giving priority to bugs for the latest long term Ubuntu release. In contrast of doing for the latest regular release, as I have been doing till now. The importance of this is that setting priorities is actually what tells us which

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-29 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Teo Teo: THE F***ING MOUSE, for god's sake. I found a fix for that: (http://tinyurl.com/btfk7g) Teo Teo: > "De-releasing" 16.04 until it is decently usable should be easy, > shouldn't it? Sure: (http://tinyurl.com/hdsahpf) Teo Teo: > Ok so now it's been two days, and Software Updater is

Re: MOUSE-BUG

2016-04-27 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Johana Yañez: > I have no idea if it is a system bug or just i have to do something > to the mouse can work. Since mice work just plugging in them, it sounds like a bug. Johana Yañez: > Can u help me with? Do this:

The Wine package is so dated

2016-04-27 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
I have just reported a bug about the Wine package, and a developer told me the package version we are using is very outdated and we shall consider upgrading it. The current version in Ubuntu is 1.6, exactly the same as in 2014-04. Where the stable Wine version is 1.8 and the development is

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Alberto Salvia Novella: Do you mean papercuts could be better tracked using a tag? There is a problem with that. One purpose of the papercuts project is to train incomers in quality assurance. And having a separate project for that allows people setting bug statuses and importances without

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: > Why add HundredPaperCuts in the first place? Do you mean papercuts could be better tracked using a tag? -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-26 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Flocculant: Is this why you have never responded to Xubuntu bugs? Yes, as I informed Pasi Lallinaho. Flocculant: > We track bug status - and as the Hundred status never changes this > causes us problems. Setting importance is not because the Papercuts project, but for debugging Ubuntu

Upgrading to 16.04 can render the system permanently broken

2016-04-25 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Seems that upgrading from Ubuntu 15.10 to 16.04 right now is very likely to permanently broke the entire operating system, due to a unmet dependency on gconf. (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gconf/+bug/1551623) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Upgraded from 15.10 to 16.04

2016-04-22 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Eric Adler: Peaches and cream, favorite gateau, Moet and Chandon on ice! Sounds good :) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

I have asked LibreOffice developers to get rid of some toolbar buttons

2016-04-21 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
As you probably have noticed, most buttons in LibreOffice toolbars are never or rarely used. So I have asked its developers to keep only those buttons that are currently or constantly used as default configuration. Here is the bug report, in case you want to give some input yourselves:

Re: delete me from your system

2016-04-20 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Bob Looter: Delete me of from your lists. You can unsubscribe at (https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality) -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-quality

Re: Performance improvements for Dash

2016-04-19 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
Ryein Goddard: Do you have the same problem with terminal windows over a video with transparency enabled? Please discuss bugs in reports themselves. -- Ubuntu-quality mailing list Ubuntu-quality@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

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